Distance Educator

Distance-Educator.com provides a daily news summary and articles on eLearning.

• MIT's Open CourseWare debuts with 40 courses.
• Robert Gagne has died at age 85. Gagne is best known for linking a taxonomy of learning outcomes with nine instructional events and provided instructional designers with specific strategies that were based on a hierarchy of intellectual skills.
• There's a link to a light-weight article in IT-Analysis on The Future of eLearning
• E-learning finally gets on its running shoes, an article from the Sydney Morning Herald, reports on a shoe retailer that tied training records to cash-register data, finding a 10% to 20% boost in revenues attributable to training.
• A linked article in eSchool News reports on education in 2020. However, it turns out that the link is to an article about a study, not directly to the source material.

I signed up for the daily news and will decide whether this is worth my time or not in a week or two. At first glance, I think eLearningPost will continue to meet my general need for eLearning news.

Posted by Jay Cross at October 2, 2002 08:54 AM | TrackBack